Jarvis Cocker Quotes - Page 3

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• Pornography takes all the reality out of sex and Disney does that to family life.

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  Sex, Reality, Doe

  "The Big Issue" Magazine, 2006.

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• You get to a certain age and you just want to prove that you can still rock - that you've still got it.

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  Rocks, Age, Want

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• I like bossy girls. I don't like girls who just do whatever they think you want them to do, and follow you around trying to please you all the time.

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  Girl, Thinking, Trying

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• I've stuck to the same things for twenty years. I try to look like a slightly edgy geography teacher. Like what a geography teacher looked like when I was in school. Cords, sensible shoes and glasses. I never liked geography much as a subject though. In fact the only geography teacher I can remember from school was a woman who had a moustache.

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  Teacher, School, Glasses

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• I'm sure Sting's a lovely guy. It's just that nobody wants to be seen as that holier-than-thou thing. That over-earnestness is a bit of a problem with people in bands and celebrities or whatever.

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  People, Guy, Lovely

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• In no way am I supporting or suggesting that a Conservative government is a good thing, far from it.

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  Government, Way, Conservative

  "Jarvis Cocker: I'm no Tory boy" by Rosie Swash, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2009.

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• I'd been thinking I'd have to learn how to play really well, but obviously the message of punk was that you just learn three chords in a week and you're away.

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  Thinking, Play, Three

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• We live in an age where people are kind of a bit obsessed with celebrity and stuff. You can't help but be curious about it.

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  People, Age, Stuff

  Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. April 2, 2007.

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• There seems to be a contradiction in the fact that there's more music around and more channels or downloading music or more channels on TV, and yet at the same time, in some ways it doesn't seem to be as vital as it once was. It seems to be just another entertainment option or lifestyle enhancement aid or something.

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  Way, Enhancement, Facts

  Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. April 2, 2007.

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• There's the famous thing that the A&R man from the record company is supposed to do: He's supposed to come into the studio and listen to the songs you've been recording and then say, 'Guys, I don't hear any singles.' And then everybody falls into a terrible depression because you have to write one.

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  Song, Fall, Writing

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• Well, once you've resigned yourself to the fact that you are the more mature pop performer and you're past the age you ever thought you would do it, you might as well do it as long as you can. As long as I can still lift a microphone, then I'll do it, you know.

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  Past, Long, Age

  "Paris match" by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2007.

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• Tabloids invoke freedom of speech, but they're not interested in that, they're just interested in who's shagging whom, who's got drunk. And if you take that pretend, faux moral standpoint, you end up with people in public life being completely boring. Like they've had their genitals removed.

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  People, Drunk, Freedom Of Speech

  "Jarvis Cocker answers your questions: 'Go on, then, give us the horrible ones'". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2011.

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• I don't think people should abuse the fact that they are in showbiz. You still have to be human. I think that's the point. Showbiz is about showing human things - just amplified, that's all. And when it gets too much into, "Hey, we're part of the showbiz club and we can do what we want," it turns me off and I hate it.

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  Hate, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Often people poopoo melody as if it's a cheap trick to make people like things, but in my experience it's the hardest part of the tune, to find something that doesn't immediately remind you of something that's happened before.

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  People, Melody

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Also, because people like to multitask, in a way if you've got a bit of music on in the background and the lyrical content is making you want to listen to it, then that would probably put you off the texting you wanted to do. I think people like things that just make that right kind of noise, but leave your brain free to do something else.

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  Thinking, People, Brain

  "Jarvis Cocker: 'Music has changed. It's not as central, it's more like a scented candle'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2011.

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• Paris is like a beautiful woman, but she's very haughty, she's not interested in you. She's very nice to look at but you can't quite get it together with her.

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  Beautiful, Nice, Together

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Money isn't important, but you have to have enough, so you don't have to think about it. Thinking about money is a drag.

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  Thinking, Important, Enough

  "This much I know: Jarvis Cocker". Interview with Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2010.

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• Hollywood is called Hollywood, but holly doesn't grow there. Right from the start it's based on a lie. But it's a very seductive lie, and we're still entranced by it.

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  Lying, Seductive

  Source: thequietus.com

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• [Jeffrey Lewis is] The best lyricist working in the US today.

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  Today, Lyricists

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• I know that some filmmakers strive for a kind of naturalistic approach, but you're never going to capture something that's really natural - just the simple fact that you choose to put a frame around something means that you've already chosen one particular thing to put more attention on.

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  Mean, Simple, Facts

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• If you get involved in music expecting to make a living out of it, then you've picked the wrong thing to do. That shouldn't really be in your mind.

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  Mind, Expecting, Get Involved

  "Jarvis Cocker answers your questions: 'Go on, then, give us the horrible ones'". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2011.

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• The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me.

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  Self, Encounters, Levels

  "You can snort as much cocaine as you want and have as many beautiful women as you want ... but it doesn't make you happy" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2008.

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• Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it's some kind of quality isn't it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth.

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  Years, Imagination, Sloth

  "You can snort as much cocaine as you want and have as many beautiful women as you want ... but it doesn't make you happy" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2008.

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• A Conservative government is necessary. There is no credible alternative.

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  Government, Alternatives, Conservative

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think the credit crunch is a brilliant thing. We should all stop moaning and start celebrating. When times are tough, it's an opportunity to start looking at life in a different way.

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  Opportunity, Thinking, Different

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